January 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 235 – Pope St. Anterus
• 323 – Jin Yuandi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 276)
• 492 – Pope Felix III
• 1098 – Walkelin, Norman bishop of Winchester
• 1322 – King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
• 1437 – Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
• 1543 – Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
• 1571 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
• 1641 – Jeremiah Horrocks, British astronomer (b. 1618)
• 1656 – Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
• 1670 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, British soldier (b. 1608)
• 1690 – Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
• 1701 – Prince Louis I of Monaco (b. 1642)
• 1743 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
• 1779 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
• 1785 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
• 1795 – Josiah Wedgwood, British potter (b. 1730)
• 1813 – Bennelong, Aborigine interlocutor (b. c.1764)
• 1826 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
• 1871 – Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian Saint (b. 1805)
• 1875 – Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
• 1882 – William Harrison Ainsworth, British novelist (b. 1805)
• 1895 – James Merritt Ives, American lithographer (b. 1824)
• 1903 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
• 1911 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
• 1915 – James Elroy Flecker, British author (b. 1884)
• 1916 – Grenville M. Dodge, American Major General (b. 1831)
• 1922 – Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, German impostor who became famous as The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) in 1906 (b. 1849)
• 1923 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
• 1927 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
• 1933 – Wilhelm Cuno, German staesman (b. 1876)
• 1933 – Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
• 1943 – F. M. Cornford, English classical scholar and poet (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Sir Walter James, Australian politician (b. 1863)
• 1943 – André Fauquet-Lemaître, French polo player (b. 1862)
• 1944 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
• 1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
• 1946 – William Joyce, American propagandist (b. 1906)
• 1950 – Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
• 1956 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
• 1956 – Dimitrios Vergos, Greek champion in wrestling, weightlifting and shot put (b. 1886)
• 1956 – Joseph Wirth, German statesman (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Edwin Muir, Orcadian poet, novelist and translator (b. 1887)
• 1962 – Hermann Lux, German footballer (b. 1893)
• 1967 – Mary Garden, British singer (b. 1874)
• 1967 – Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
• 1969 – Jean Focas, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1909)
• 1969 – Tzavalas Karousos, Greek actor (b. 1904)
• 1969 – Howard McNear, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Gladys Aylward, British missionary (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian Writer(b.1925)
• 1974 – Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
• 1980 – Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
• 1980 – George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 1981 – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883)
• 1988 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
• 1988 – Joie Chitwood, American racing driver and stuntman (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Arthur Gold, American pianist (b. 1917)
• 1992 – Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
• 1993 – Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
• 1994 – Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Leon Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
• 2005 – JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
• 2006 – Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Earl Reibel, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
• 2007 – William Verity Jr., American industrialist and 28th Secretary of Commerce (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Sir Cecil Walker, Northern Irish politician (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Michael Yeats, Irish barrister, politician and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
• 2008 – Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
• 2010 – Sir Ian Brownlie, British lawyer (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Mary Daly, American theologian and feminist scholar (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Fadil Hadžić, Croatian film director (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Willi Entenmann, German footballer and footballcoach (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer and publisher (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Gatewood Galbraith, American politician (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Bob Weston, British musician (Fleetwood Mac) (b. 1947)